Picture-molding bracket.



E. CHRISTIAN. PICTURE MOLDING BRAGKET. APPLICATION FILED FEB. 24, 1908.

Patented Sept. 15,1908.

QJPMCQ JWM EDWARD CHRISTIAN, OF WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT.

PICTURE-MOLDING BRACIGET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 15, 1908.

Application filed February 24, 1908. Serial No. 417,572.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD CHRISTIAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Waterbury, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Picture-Molding Brackets and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in-

Figure 1 a face view of a picture molding bracket constructed in accordance with my invention, showing the molding rod thereon. Fig. 2 a side view of the same. Fig. 8 a front view of the bracket showing it combined with a slide and arm for attachment to a door or window frame. Fig. 4 a perspective view of the slide.

This invention relates to an improvement in picture molding brackets.

In hanging picture molding it is usually nailed to the wall.

The object of this invention is to provide a bracket which may be nailed to the wall and by which the picture molding is supported and so that a round rod may be used as a picture molding; and the invention consists in the construction hereinafter described and particularly recited in the claims.

In carrying out my invention I employ a plate 2 of sheet metal from which a finger 3 is cut and turned outward and curved upward. The plate has perforations 4 more or less in number by which it may be attached to the wall by nails or screws. The finger 3 has perforations 5, 6 and 7. In each side near the upper end a slot 8 is cut and the metal outside the slot is offset or thrown outward to form straps 9 for the purpose as will here: inafter appear. These plates are secured to the wall at desired points and with brackets of this character a round rod 10 may be employed. This rod will rest on the hookshaped finger 3 and may be secured thereto by small nails or tacks through the perforations 6. At the point, however, where sections of the rod abut the nails may be driven through the perforations 5 and 7 into the respective ends of the rod. It frequently happens that the rod or molding is to abut against the frame 11 of a door or window; and when this is the case I provide a slide 13 adapted to pass beneath the straps 9 and form this slide with an arm 14 at one end which will stand in a plane at right angles to the plate 2.

The slide 13 will have a dent 15 adapted to engage with a dent 16 in the plate so that when in place it will not slip and the arm 14 is formed with a perforation 17 by which it may be nailed or secured to the door or window casing 11. I thus secure the bracket in place without attaching it directly to the wall as it frequently happens that closely adjacent to the door or window casing there is no studdin to which it might be securely attached. This slide with its arm may be applied to either side of the bracket plate so as to provide for attachment at either side of the door or window. This plate when secured to the wall may be a permanent fixture as the wall can be decorated without relnoving the bracket, it only being necessary to remove the rod from the bracket. This construction permits the use of a round rod for a picture molding which will not hold the dust as is the case of the usual picture molding and presents a suitable surface for supporting the usual picture molding hooks.

I claim The herein described molding bracket comprising a plate, an integral hook-shaped finger projecting outward therefrom and provided with perforations, said plate formed with offset straps at each side of the plate near the upper end, and a slide passed beneath said straps and formed with an outwardly projecting perforated arm, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof, I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

EDWARD CHRISTIAN. lVitnesses:

CHAs. L. KERMEALLY, THOMAS MARToNE. 

